"Is it true that the proofs in my papers are correct?"

"In principle, yes, because no referee has ever ventured into the appendix."

Maybe Referee 2 wanted to reject the other referees‘ opinion.

Question at Radio Cambridgestan:
“Is it true that my proof lacks elegance?”
Answer:
“In principle, yes, but only because the referee expected it to rhyme.”

“Reviewer: ‘The paper needs more clarity.’
Me: ‘What specifically?’
Reviewer: ‘Yes.’”

This is sooo true. I will put it in my email signature.

„Give me a place to stand (and theory) and I will move the world“ Archimedes after reading a book on game theory.

Brilliant idea, explained simply. Will definitely read the paper and think about how to use it in my work.

I am on the job market, which seems like a great opportunity for my first post on here! My job market paper is about failures of contingent thinking -- the act of reasoning about hypothetical events. 1/

Never thought of that. Thanks for the advice…

That seems hard to copy. Even with the right advisor. Best anti mid-life crisis advice: keep on having small children. There will be no time for a mid-life crisis.

Yes, please!

Today's edition of "📈📉 papers you should know" is Amanda Friedenberg's @econometric.bsky.social paper, "Bargaining Under Strategic Uncertainty: The Role of Second-Order Optimism". It's a wonderful example of a paper that delivers new insights from studying an old game.

I wrote an intro to the literature on simple mechanisms. Out now in the JEP.

It’s a short (14-page) plain-language summary, designed to get students to the research frontier. 📈📉

pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

found claude fun to chat with about this

Here's Bryan Caplan writing about math in economics.

Seems very wrong to me. I wonder what the quickest refutation is that would make sense to most practicing economists.

www.betonit.ai/p/economath_...

Paper worth reading: "The Optimality of Majority Rule" by Nina Bobkova.

It offers a new perspective on why simple majority-rule may be best: it not only aggregates information but it also motivates voters to learn about what really matters.

Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1pVVE...

#polecon

Alexey Kushnir: Undergraduate Course Allocation through Competitive Markets YouTube video by Virtual Market Design Seminar

Monday's great talk by Alexey Kushnir (Carnegie Mellon University), 'Undergraduate Course Allocation through Competitive Markets' with. Daniel Kornbluth is now available on our YouTube channel.

➡️ Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eoI... 📉📈

Did you know you can make BLOCKLISTs on bluesky?! Marciano even took the time to make one for QJE's use.

I just do not get it. How can figures in the end be optimal in any way?

Keynote to rule them all!

there's a view that this place is unbearably lefty and less valuable/less promising because of that. i don't think it's true

but it WOULD be great for econsky to form a norm of not piling on when people say something against the prevailing orthodoxy